Wednesday, July 8, 2015

SharePoint Recycle Bin – First Stage and Second Stage

SharePoint
Recycle Bin stores and keeps a track of the items deleted from the site. When
an item is deleted in SharePoint, it is not completely deleted, it is actually
stored in a Recycle Bin . The main idea of a Recycle Bin is to restore contents
that are accidentally deleted or retrieve data that should not have been
deleted. There are 2 stages to the Recycle Bin.

First Stage Recycle Bin

Whenever
an item is deleted from the site it goes to the Recycle Bin (users’ Recycle Bin)
of the site and stays there till it is restored or it expires. By default the
items are stored in the Recycle bin for 30 days. This setting is configured at
the web application level from Central Administration. You can access a site's
Recycle Bin by clicking on the Recycle Bin link on the left navigation (Quick
Launch).

Normal user's Recycle Bin URL - /_layouts/recyclebin.aspx

If
an item is deleted from the User’s
Recycle Bin (First Stage Recycle Bin), it goes to the Site Collection
Recycle Bin (Second Stage Recycle Bin).

Second Stage Recycle Bin

When
an item is deleted from a site's Recycle Bin it goes toSite Collection Recycle Binand
stays there till it is restored or it expires. By default the items are stored
in the Recycle bin for 30 days. If the item is deleted from here, it is deleted
forever. To access the Site Collection
Recycle Bin, browse to Site Settings -> Site Collection Administration -> Recycle Bin.

This
Recycle Bin has two views:End
User Recycle Bin Itemsview
displays all the contents of all the recycle bins of all the sites under that
particular site collection whereasDeleted
From End User Recycle Bin view displays all the items which have been
deleted from the sites recycle bins